Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Traders Fancy Apple
Traders Fancy is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Pennsylvania, US (before 1840). It was grown primarily for cooking. Flesh is white, crisp, tender, juicy, subacid, good to very good. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1840), painted by Deborah Griscom Passmore, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Traders Fancy |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1840 |
| Artist(s) | Passmore, Deborah Griscom |
| Specimen origin | West Virginia, Harrison, Shinnston; Pennsylvania, Fayette, Broad Ford |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 2 |
All 2 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00003599, POM00003600.
